HCL Connections Ideas Portal

Welcome to the HCL Connections Product Ideas Lab! The place where you can submit product ideas and enhancement request. We encourage you to participate by voting on, commenting on, and creating new ideas. All new ideas will be evaluated by the HCL Product Management & Engineering teams, and the next steps will be communicated. While not all submitted ideas will be executed upon, community feedback will play a key role in influencing which ideas are and when they will be implemented.

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    Add Community Type (single select drop down) to the Start a Community Screen

    Its is necessary in our environment to assign a "Type" or grouping to a community. It would greatly simplify administration if this field were available within the connections community itself. This typing allows administrators to identify the lev...
    about 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Provide full documentation of ACF blacklist rule tags

    The ACF blacklist rule tags are not documented anywhere, so administrators have to guess as to their meaning and the behavior that a particular configuration will effect.
    about 7 years ago in 09. Administration 0 Under Consideration

    Blogs reader on mobile is much better than on desktop - please add a blogs overview either as "Blogs" or in orient me as "the blogs newspaper page"

    In the community overview, Blogs have only their headline and you can expand to a short preview. Since these homepage widgets are far too small to really read in them, you need to switch to the "all posts" page - but there every post is shown in i...
    about 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

    Enhance error reporting when Common application fails to load a .jar file due to specific modules

    There is nothing in the log file when Common decides it isn't going to load/process a .jar file. In this case, it didn't load the .jar at all, but we've had errors in the past where it didn't like something in the .jar such as referencing an undef...
    about 7 years ago in 13. Other 0 Under Consideration

    Disable preview for xls (Excel) files

    Currently Docs previews has some limitations. http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21973346 In order to workaround these issues, we would like to only download .xls files, instead of previewing it.
    about 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 1 Under Consideration

    Allow repeating To-Do items in Connections Cloud

    Some people would like to have scheduled weekly or monthly To-Do items. Right now, they have to create a separate To-Do item for every Friday (for example) or the 15th of the month.
    about 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

    Add new J2EE security role "privileged-community-creator" for Communities app

    Add a dedicated role named "privileged-community-creator" which can be used to assign the permission to create private communities only. In the current implementation using community policy, you can restrict the community types which users in th...
    about 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Ability to paste a reference to the number of the paragraph

    We are working with lawyers who need a solution to create, approve and publish normative acts. The feature they need is a support to paste within the text of the document a reference to the number of other paragraph (eg. [...] and in such case we ...
    about 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration

    Refuse the use of the plugin for parts of the user base

    Due to strict data security requirements from the authorities, we have a need to refuse the use of plug-in from the internet without two factor authentication.My idea is to be able to set up a dedicated web server that only gives access to Connect...
    about 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 1 Under Consideration

    Ability to completely fold tasks comments in Activity items in order to avoid clutter

    I use the Activities feature in Connections heavily, and it is very useful that I can have Tasks and Comments in each Activity item. The problem is that when I have lots of Tasks and Comments, the overview of all Activities becomes cluttered. Woul...
    about 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration
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